I agree with the above poster. Essentially this is a tie. In order to break the draw, you need to find some other basis on which to decide. Both are beautiful campuses. If I had to decide I would visit each campus & both law schools while school is in session (if possible) if there was no particular area of law of substantial interest.P.S. Edit of the above post: Indiana has more beautiful girls, while Iowa has hotter girls.

Unless you want Indianapolis, I would go with Iowa. You can gain resident tuition there after a year with a RA position, whereas at IUB it is very difficult, nay impossible, to gain residency. I would never even consider paying the kind of money nonresidents have to pay at IUB for three years.

traehekat wrote:Iowa also has a better reputation throughout the Midwest.

... and this is based on...?

Peer assessment scores, assessment scores by lawyers and judges, vault employability rankings, NLJ250 placement %, simply looking at where lawyers at large firms went to school via the firm's website, historically higher ranking, the wide net cast by Iowa graduates across the Midwest which has lead to improved reputation (more students from IUB stay in Indiana), slightly better % employed by Article III federal clerks, etc.

EDIT: Their reputation isn't THAT much better, though. It's not like IUB is a TTT compared to Iowa, I would just argue that Iowa has a slightly better reputation.